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WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS by ANONYMOUS

First Line: IS LOVE CONTAGIOUS! - I DON'T KNOW
Last Line: I'D RATHER DOUBT THAN KNOW SHE DON'T
Subject(s): LOVE;
Is love contagious? -- I don't know;
But this I am prepared to say,
That I have felt for many a day
A great desire to make it so.

Does she vouchsafe a thought of me?
Sometimes I think she does; and then
I'm forced to grope in doubt again,
Which seems my normal state to be.

Why don't I ask, and asking know?
I grant perhaps it might be wise;
But when I look into her eyes,
And hear her voice which thrills me so,

I think that on the whole I won't;
I'd rather doubt than know she don't.



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